batmanschmatman | 009 [video]

[So, Dick's spent the last couple hours of this awesome flood passed out in the infirmary after Bruce Jr. made a deal with Aztec!Eddie. He... kind of collapsed on his way there. Concussions suck.

But, you know what happens to Bats who get sent to the infirmary after getting their asses handed to them? They get bored and try to escape once everything's back to normal. Which is why Dick is currently set up in his room, propped up on his bed with a couple pillows and going to be harassing all of you now that he's conscious enough to do it.

He looks more or less okay, even though he's got a lot of scrapes and bruises that have been for the most part treated. The most prominent is the bandage on his forehead and the pretty colorful bruising on the side of his face where he got whacked with the Maquahuitl, but his hands are also pretty badly bruised after fighting without his gloves for that long. All in all though? He's not really complaining. Better then the alternative, all things considered.

He's also a lot more coherent then he was in Zero, if still kind of tired, so. Small blessings all over the place.]

So, that was tons of fun. [Sarcasm, folks.] What'd I miss while I was out? Anyone else try to take over the Barge?

[He might be internally sulking a little that he blacked out again before he got to try and help out with all the fun stuff.]

[Private to Costigan]

How are you?

[Private to Hayley]

So... where'd you get a taser?

[Private to Chuck]

Was I hallucinating or were you kicking ass and taking names while we were getting the hell out of Zero?

[Private to Tim]

Thanks for making sure I didn't die.

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Yep. Tim. He's a good kid.

Seems like.

You two are close?

Yeah. You know, typical we've been through a lot together kind of thing, I guess.

I'm glad you have someone like that, Dick.

Anyone you know on board?

Eames and Arthur, really. Mal... is a complicated story.

How so? [Although really, he's not going to be offended if you don't want to elaborate.]

[She's tempted to hold back information, considering just how bizarrely complicated it is.]

The last time I saw her was in a dream. She wasn't real. But here, she is very real.

That's weird. Is it like, a parallel universe kind of thing?

[She didn't really know how to describe it.]

Her husband, Dom Cobb, had a projection of her in his subconscious after she died.

And... you met this projection. [Confusion, Dick has it.]

In dream sharing, you can explore the subconscious of another person by talking to these projections. Mal's projection was... [crazy, dangerous, a gigantic wrench in every machine ever?] dangerous. But Mal, here, isn't.

Can't say I've ever done "dream sharing."

It's not very difficult, but it's something conceptually abstract.

So, how do you do it? Like, do you hook up to a simulator, trip out on drugs, do a Vulcan mind meld...? [He's honestly curious.]

You use a PASIV, which sedates the dreamer and allows for more connectedness between those sharing the dream.

Is it dangerous?

Unless you're under extremely heavy sedation, no, it isn't dangerous.

So, why does an architect dream share? Is this like one of those science fiction stories where everyone prefers their dream world to reality?

I was recruited.

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